ORGS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reinforcement, Domestic Partnership In The United States, Canadian Business

• School: WLU
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 2010
• Professor: Eleanor Westney

Document Summary

Diverse workforce increase org. effectiveness, lift morale, greater access to new segments, enhance productivity. This article explains why diversity don"t always help company, explains the 3rd paradigm for understanding and leveraging diversity. Diversity goes beyond increasing the number of different identity group affiliations on the payroll to recognizing is just the first step. Diversity should be understood as the varied perspectives and approaches to work that members of different identity groups bring. Diversity brings knowledge and perspectives about how to actually do work- how to design processes, reach goals, frame tasks, create effective teams, communicate ideas, and lead. Diversity can also challenge basic assumptions, strategies, operations, practices and procedures. 3. learnings and effectiveness paradigm- bring the two paradigms together but expands by connecting diversity to approaches to work. Diversity helps a company improve depending on how the company defines diversity, what it does with the experiences of being a diverse org.